Jean Lafitte. Gentleman Smuggler ... Illustrated by Jan Van Everen. [With a Portrait.].
Author | : Mitchell Vaughn CHARNLEY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Louisiana |
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Author | : Mitchell Vaughn CHARNLEY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Louisiana |
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Author | : Mitchell Vaughn Charnley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Louisiana |
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Author | : Mitchell Vaughn Charnley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Louisiana |
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Author | : Mitchell Vaughn Charnley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Photoplay editions |
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Author | : Mitchell Vaughn Charnley |
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Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Louisiana |
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Fictionized life of Lafitte.
Author | : Ernest Obadele-Starks |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2007-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1557288585 |
In 1891 a young W. E. B. DuBois addressed the annual American Historical Association on the enforcement of slave trade laws: “Northern greed joined to Southern credulity was a combination calculated to circumvent any law, human or divine.” One law in particular he was referring to was the Abolition Act of 1808. It was specifically passed to end the foreign slave trade. However, as Ernest Obadele-Starks shows, thanks to profiteering smugglers like the Lafitte brothers and the Bowie brothers, the slave trade persisted throughout the south for a number of years after the law was passed. Freebooters and Smugglers examines the tactics and strategies that the adherents of the foreign slave trade used to challenge the law. It reassesses the role that Americans played in the continuation of foreign slave transshipments into the country right up to the Civil War, shedding light on an important topic that has been largely overlooked in the historiography of the slave trade.
Author | : Lyle Saxon |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1989-04-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781455607198 |
No fictional swashbuckler could ever rival Jean Lafitte's dramatic life. From his hidden base in the Louisiana swamps at Barataria Bay, Lafitte mounted daring raids on ships in the Gulf of Mexico. His battles with the law were the stuff of legend: when Governor Claiborne of Louisiana offered a reward for the buccaneer's capture, Lafitte responded with a bigger reward for the governor! But when the British asked for his help in their invasion of Louisiana during the War of 1812, the pirate instead joined forces with Andrew Jackson to win the Battle of New Orleans. Later, the brigand moved his operation to Galveston and harried Mexican vessels in support of the Texans seeking independence. Lyle Saxon's superbly written account examines Lafitte's fascinating career, and frees the truth of the pirate's life from the web of fantastic myths which grew up around him. Did Lafitte participate in the French Revolution as a lad? What was his role in the plot to rescue Napoleon from his exile on St. Helena? And where is Lafitte's treasure hidden? Lafitte the Pirate is a classic work which will appeal to both adventure lovers and students of Louisiana history.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve (La.) |
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Author | : Sara E. Johnson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2012-10-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0520953789 |
The Fear of French Negroes is an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1845). Using visual culture, popular music and dance, periodical literature, historical memoirs, and state papers, Sara E. Johnson examines the migration of people, ideas, and practices across imperial boundaries. Building on previous scholarship on black internationalism, she traces expressions of both aesthetic and experiential transcolonial black politics across the Caribbean world, including Hispaniola, Louisiana and the Gulf South, Jamaica, and Cuba. Johnson examines the lives and work of figures as diverse as armed black soldiers and privateers, female performers, and newspaper editors to argue for the existence of "competing inter-Americanisms" as she uncovers the struggle for unity amidst the realities of class, territorial, and linguistic diversity. These stories move beyond a consideration of the well-documented anxiety insurgent blacks occasioned in slaveholding systems to refocus attention on the wide variety of strategic alliances they generated in their quests for freedom, equality and profit.
Author | : Robert Tallant |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1994-03-31 |
Genre | : New Orleans (La.) |
ISBN | : 9780882899312 |
Originally published in 1951 by Random House.